BI Platform Engineer at IFS in Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

companyDescription IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge. At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust. We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world. We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference. If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS. We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships. jobDescription We’re a small BI team inside IFS R&D Product, and we’re looking for someone to build something that matters. Not another dashboard. The foundation — the governed, certified, scalable semantic data layer that enables over 1,500 people in our R&D organisation find and trust data. You will drive the design, quality, and governance of our Power BI semantic models, build the deployment pipelines that bring reliability to our analytics platform, and play a lead our efforts to scale Microsoft Fabric toward AI-readiness. Your work directly enables business users across Product Management, Operations, and senior leadership to make data driven decisions. This is a rare opportunity to play a key roll in the transformation for the data architecture role inside an established organisation, with executive backing, a clear 12-month roadmap, and a team that wants to do things properly. This is NOT a report building role. If you are most excited about designing visuals, choosing color palettes, and building executive dashboards, this isn’t the right fit. If you are most excited about the model that makes the dashboard possible — the schema, the RLS, the measures, the refresh architecture — keep reading. Semantic model design and ownership Design and maintain all shared Power BI semantic models — star schemas, composite models, calculated tables, and measure libraries Establish and enforce naming conventions, folder structures, and documentation standards across all models Own the certification process with IT for all shared datasets — ensuring every promoted model is tested, documented, and refresh-monitored Iterate on the existing definition and implementation of row-level security (RLS) patterns across all models handling sensitive data Data pipeline and workspace architecture Design and own the workspace architecture to address team and business needs Build and manage deployment pipelines (dev → test → prod) for all model changes, eliminating manual workspace promotions Own ingestion pipelines for key REST API data sources: GitHub, Jira, ServiceNow, Claude API,   etc. Partner with Lead and Senior BI Analysts on Fabric Lakehouse architecture and Direct Lake model migrations. Governance and standards Lead workspace audit — inventorying, triaging, and classifying all existing datasets and reports Review, enhance and maintain the team’s governance documentation: naming standards, access control model, certification criteria Conduct quarterly workspace access reviews and dataset health checks Champion data quality — proactively identifying and resolving model performance issues before they affect users Enablement and collaboration Support the self-service program by ensuring certified models are accessible, documented, and usable by business report builders Provide technical mentorship to BI Analyst team members on semantic modelling and DAX best practices Collaborate with the Business insights team to ensure models expose the right measures and dimensions for analytical use Participate in BI office hours to support business users building their own reports on certified datasets qualifications Power BI semantic model design Intermediate to advanced DAX Row-level security — static and dynamic patterns Power Query / M transformation logic Azure / Microsoft Fabric experience REST API data ingestion experience — especially GitHub, Jira, or ServiceNow Python or PySpark for Fabric notebook-based transformations Desirable: Experience with deployment pipelines and ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) in Power BI REST API data ingestion experience — especially GitHub, Jira, or ServiceNow Experience working in an R&D, product, or engineering organisation — you understand sprint metrics, velocity, and development lifecycle data Analytical and Reporting skills (Power BI & Power Query) JIRA experience Microsoft Fabric DP-600 and/or DP-700 certification (or active pursuit of it) Microsoft AI-901: Azure AI Fundamentals certification (or AI-900 equivalent) Experience in the Enterprise Software industry would be a plus (Software, Platform, IT) Additional information Job Competencies Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving Business Acumen Effective Communication Skills Constantly curious Data analysis and strategy Data Visualization using Power BI Data Modeling Concepts Creativity and Innovation Dependability Planning and Organizing/Time Management Results-Oriented additionalInformation We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.